An edition of The ladies are upstairs (2011)

The ladies are upstairs

a collection of stories

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An edition of The ladies are upstairs (2011)

The ladies are upstairs

a collection of stories

From the 1930s through the dawning of a new century, these tender and moving stories underscore living life with style and hidden steel despite one's circumstances and warn against disregarding the past struggles of others. Doux Thibaut negotiates a hard life on the Caribbean island of Paz, confronting the shame of poverty and illegitimacy, the hazards of sectarianism on an island segregated into Catholics and Protestants, and the injustices of racism and classism. As an old lady moving between the homes of her children in Boston and New York, Doux wonders whether they and her grandchildren really appreciate what her engagement with life has taught her. In The Ladies Are Upstairs, Merle Collins has created a mosaic novel from these stories of a Caribbean woman's life, demanding that such lives not be forgotten.

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Publisher
Peepal Tree
Language
English
Pages
155

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Table of Contents

Rain darling
Doux stories: Mapping. Français, anglais. You should see them in church with glasses on! You don't count. Big stone. Jericho and the lady. The ladies are upstairs. Fashionable ladies at the Old Mill. He brings her warmth. Sweetie.

Edition Notes

Published in
Leeds, England

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR9275.G73 C655 2011, PR9275.G73C65 L34 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
155 p. ;
Number of pages
155

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25407523M
Internet Archive
ladiesareupstair0000coll
ISBN 13
9781845231798
LCCN
2012452150
OCLC/WorldCat
767637553

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